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by mercutio2 2y ago
“Back” is in the mid 1800’s, you mean? Or “back” as in when we built astonishingly expensive liberty ships for a large fraction of our GDP in WW2? Because since the move to steel ships, there’s never been a time the US has been good at buil
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by mercutio2 2y ago
The tricky thing is it’s taxing land on what your neighbors built in their land. If you build something that makes my land valuable, I get taxed more. I like the incentive structure, but I think part of the incentives are towards collecti
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by mercutio2 2y ago
What is this obsession people have with the taxation of billionaires? There aren’t many billionaires. Expropriating all their wealth wouldn’t move the needle for any of our budgetary problems. I’m all for closing the step up in basis on dea
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by mercutio2 2y ago
If this is really a significant concern for you, are you accounting for the CO2e of the (very significant) difference in energy consumption over the lifetime of the device? It seems unlikely to me that in a full lifecycle accounting the spi
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Of course MCAS was disclosed to pilots, the idea that it wasn’t is ridiculous to the point of absurdity. Boeing has gone off the rails, but the general lack of nuance in the common narrative about their failures is really over the top. MCAS
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by mercutio2 2y ago
I included health insurance in my calculation, and public schools in Mississippi are just as free in the US as they are Denmark. Cost of living is much higher in Denmark, so making that adjustment isn't going to help your argument. If
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Murdering people is not pro anything. The answer was already given: it was politically infeasible to pass a single payer variant in the US. And it’s not clear it would have been good even if it had been feasible.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Printing is just not very expensive, relative to the size of the US economy. People like the $1 note. I just don't think it's going to happen for another 2x-4x reduction in the value of the note. Give it 15-40 years and we'll
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HATEOAS(htmx.org)
3 points by mercutio2 2y ago|1 comments
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by mercutio2 2y ago
US notes are much more durable than most other countries’, and last much longer in circulation. The fed has calculated that the seignorage vs. printing costs of switching to coins about balance out for dollars. Pennies however: we keep them
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Why do you say you have to pay a monthly fee for iCloud? None of the technology you’re discussing here requires a paid account. You may, separately, decide to sync more than the meager free quota of data on iCloud, but that’s an unrelated i
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Living on the streets is one very visible form of homelessness; your numbers are apples to oranges. LA is also an order of magnitude bigger than Barcelona, so absolute numbers (even if carefully only tracking people sleeping rough) are a we
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Big fan of Denmark! But where in the world did you get the idea people in Denmark do “much better” than people in even the poorest US state? Median income in the poorest US state (Mississippi) is slightly higher than median income in Denmar
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by mercutio2 2y ago
“In XML” is neither here nor there. The massive amounts of indirection which the IDE wouldn’t help you understand was the difficult thing. What encoding you use for that is pretty irrelevant. JSON would have been worse.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
In practice it's unlikely you're using CalDAV or CardDAV on Apple Watch, those data classes are synced from your paired phone unless you've set your watch up as a stand-alone device, which is rare. One day, hopefully!
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by mercutio2 2y ago
[not the original person you asked the question of] I cannot stand Becky Chambers. I've tried to read her three times, and after about 20 pages I give up. Of the thousand or so novels I've read in the last 20 years, I've done
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by mercutio2 2y ago
I guess everyone is just different. I loath, loath, loath videos, for "teaching" anything. For basically all types of information. I find the pacing to be terrible, and even if people talk as fast as I read, I absorb almost nothin
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by mercutio2 2y ago
You’re right, I was wrong!
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Fascinating. Vinge is about the furthest from “soft” sci-fi I can think of. We must have very different definitions of what makes something soft. It’s certainly true that Vinge doesn’t spend much time on the engineering details, but I find
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Only one side is making positive claims in this thread. I never made a claim that "all men do X" or that "shop talk and banter are fairly universal". I did point out that I and my friends do not mock our friends and coll
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by mercutio2 2y ago
I am a man. I don’t know who this “we” is you speak of. Sure as hell isn’t me or my friends. Assholes exist everywhere, but “we” don’t have to apologize for them or make the workplace a safer space for them.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
My daughter was premature and spent weeks in the NICU. My family paid exactly $0 for this experience, with good US insurance. People paying thousands of dollars with insurance have chosen to purchase cheaper insurance premiums, and then bea
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by mercutio2 2y ago
On the contrary. Conditional on living to your 60s, being moderately overweight is positively correlated with lifespan, not negatively. When you're old, setbacks that cause you to lose your appetite are much more common and much bigg
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Hashes without salts are useless for preserving privacy. Hashes with salts are also useless for preserving privacy, but at slightly higher than zero computational cost.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
It's extremely difficult to compare crime statistics that don't involve death. There's under reporting right and left, and there are classification problems. With that said, I don't think it's true that the US has,
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Wow! You're right, since 2010 cell phones (and computers under $2500) haven't been listed property. I stand corrected.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
You view the contact card. The relevant email has a RECENT label.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
You really can’t hand down your business expensed iPhone to a family member. That’s liable to land you in hot water in an audit.
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Refocusing the YIMBY Movement in SF(beyondchron.org)
2 points by mercutio2 2y ago|0 comments
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by mercutio2 2y ago
West-facing is pretty close to revenue maximizing, with current consumption peaks in the early evening.

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